Kellmünz – Babenhausen railway line
| Kellmünz – Babenhausen (Schwab) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 5410 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | last 407a; 406g (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.302 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20.00 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kellmünz – Babenhausen railway was a single-track branch line 10.3 kilometers long in Bavaria . It connected Babenhausen with Kellmünz an der Iller , where it branched off from the Neu-Ulm – Kempten railway line .
history
In 1894, the Royal Bavarian State Railways began building the line, which went into operation on November 17, 1894. The route connected three river valleys (Iller, Roth and Günztal) and had to overcome two ridges for this purpose.
For a long time there were around six passenger trains running every day, which only carried the third class . The route became known through the use of glass cases ( Bavarian PtL 2/2 , DB class 98.3). At the beginning of the 1960s, passenger transport was largely converted to rail buses , with a train only running to Babenhausen in the evening and from Babenhausen to Kellmünz in the morning.
Passenger traffic ended on August 3, 1964, and freight traffic on June 30, 1995. The line was officially closed on January 1, 1996. In the period up to 2009, the rails were removed and since 2009 there has been a footpath and cycle path on the embankment of the disused railway line.
See also
literature
- Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rails. Freight routes from 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , pp. 127 .
- Siegfried Baum: Swabian Railway . The traffic history of the local railways in Central Swabia. Verlag Wolfgang Zimmer, Eppstein im Taunus 1969.
Web links
- The Kellmünz-Babenhausen railway line on www.vergessene-bahnen.de
- History of the Kellmünz adIller market on www.altenstadt-vg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Course book summer 1963